Assistant professor
College of Nursing
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing
Room 317 - 89 Curry Place
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
Canada
Phone: 204-474-6660
Fax: 204-474-7682
Email: mandy.archibald@umanitoba.ca
Mandy Archibald, BScN, PhD
Research summary
Dr. Mandy Archibald’s current research focuses on innovations in patient-oriented research using arts-based, mixed methods and knowledge translation science.
Her work integrates technology and co-design to understand experiences of health, illness, and health service delivery specific to childhood chronic disease, and use these data to inform knowledge translation approaches across various health-illness and social contexts to improve outcomes for often marginalized and put-at-risk groups.
She is currently leading funded interdisciplinary research into living labs for health and pediatric rehabilitation, youth onset-type 2 diabetes, and arts-based knowledge translation.
Research affiliations
- Research scientist, Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba (CHRIM)
- Affiliate academic, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, South Australia
Research groups
- Diabetes Research Envisioned and Imagined in Manitoba (DREAM)
- Excellence in Neurodevelopment and Rehabilitation Research in Child Health (ENRRICH)
- Knowledge Translation Theme, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University, South Australia
- Principle investigator, Archibald ALIVE-LAB (Arts, Innovation and LIved Experience)
- Co-lead, PRIME (Partnering for Research Innovation in Mental Health through eHealth Excellence)
Keywords
- Asthma
- Child health
- Diabetes
- Disability
- Pediatrics
Biography
Dr. Archibald is a nurse-research scientist, methodologist, and interdisciplinary artist whose work spans between the College of Nursing, the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, and the School of Art at UM.
She works at the nexus of the arts, science and technology to disrupt entrenched ways of seeing and doing.
Dr. Archibald is passionate about collaborative, applied research to ensure the use of research findings.
She has clinical experience across various in-patient pediatric settings and is associate editor for the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches.
Dr. Archibald supervises students with interest in:
- Patient-oriented research (e.g., lived experience, integrated knowledge translation)
- Research methods (i.e., arts-based research, qualitative, mixed methods research, knowledge translation, realist methods)
- Chronic illness, with a particular focus on diabetes, disability, and childhood asthma.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Alberta (2016)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship, Flinders University (2016-2019)
Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honours, University of Alberta (2007)
Awards
Dr. Archibald has received over 35 awards for research and practice excellence, including a Top 150 Nurse in Canada recognition. She also received:
Terry G. Falconer Memorial Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award, Health Sciences, University of Manitoba (2023)
UM Merit Award, Research and Scholarly Activity. University of Manitoba (2020-2021 awardee)
Winner of the Perform your Science Competition during South Australia National Science Week (2018)
Canadian Nurses Association 150 for Canada’s 150 Celebrations (2017)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship (2016)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Knowledge Translation Stream, Centre for Research Excellence, NHMRC (2016)
Genevieve Gray PhD Medal in Nursing (awarded to the top PhD graduate from the University of Alberta Nursing program) (2016)
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta Centennial Award: Top 100 in Alberta (2016)
Top 40 Under 40, Edmonton (2016)
Endowment Fund for the Future Support for the Advancement of Scholarship Research Fund (EFF-SAS) Faculty of Nursing Student Publication Award (2016)
Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program Doctoral Award (2011-2015)
Alberta Registered Nurses Educational Trust (ARNET) President’s Scholarship, Doctoral Level (2015, 2013, 2012)
College and Association of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CARNA) TD Meloche Monnex Scholarship (2014)
Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize, University of Alberta (2014)
Recruitment Scholarship, Doctoral Level (2011-2014)
Contact us
College of Nursing
Helen Glass Centre for Nursing
89 Curry Place
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada
204-474-7452
204-474-7682